Presented at the Quarry Farm Barn on October 19, 2016. Peter Messent is the Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature at the University of Nottingham, U.K. Dr. Messent uses selected highlights from the The Mark Twain-Joseph Twichell Letters (edited by Hal Bush, Steve Courtney, and Peter Messent, published by the University of Georgia Press in early 2017) in order to trace the development of the forty-year friendship between Mark Twain and Joseph Twichell, the Hartford Congregation minister.

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